[Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

[Tomasz Czyż]

2016-01-08 1:28 GMT+00:00 Mathnerd314 <mathnerd314.gph at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Tomasz Czyż <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2016-01-08 0:37 GMT+00:00 Mathnerd314 <mathnerd314.gph at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> I would suggest doing it by hosting site / provider: all KDE packages in
>>> one directory, all GNOME in another, GNU in a third, SourceForge in a
>>> fourth, Kernel.org in a fifth, etc., with a final "misc" directory for
>>> one-package sites.
>>>
>> Looks like good way, but not sure about few things. So github.com whould
>> be another provider?
>> Seems like haskellPackages, pythonPackages, *Packages could follow that
>> rule if we treat lang-repos as providers.
>>
> Yeah, language specific stuff should be their own directories.
> GitHub/SF/etc. are catch-alls; in theory there could be 1000's of projects
> from them, but in practice it seems that most of the projects on there are
> dead, abandoned, or mirrored somewhere else.
>
> The goal is to have a unique location for each package, so that two people
> don't package the same thing twice (which has already happened a few times
> with our current structure).
>
Didn't see that yet, but looks like another good reason to make some
changes around that.


> Hosting seems like a good index but there might be something else (month
> project was founded?).
>
wow :-) Maybe first letter?

>
> Search, nix-env, and command-not-found remain the best way of finding
>>> packages, as in https://nixos.org/wiki/Howto_find_a_package_in_NixOS.
>>>
>> Sorry I was not precise. The problem is to locate program nix file, not
>> the name/attribute.
>>
> Well, once you have the attribute it is usually not too hard to find the
> file by tracing through the code.
>
Exactly, instead of going to the file you have to follow/trace the code.

>
> And some packages are spread across multiple files, e.g. kde4.okular has
> the source hash in pkgs/desktops/kde-4.14/kde-package/4.14.3.nix, the
> description in pkgs/desktops/kde-4.14/kdegraphics/okular.nix, and the glue
> code in pkgs/desktops/kde-4.14/kde-package/default.nix. Keeping all the
> relevant files in one directory seems like the most one could ask for.
>
:-)

>
>
> -- Mathnerd314
>



-- 
Tomasz Czyż
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